I have been trying to run the conformance test for my repository as a data provider using the tool at openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html. I enter my URL and the site passes the first test. I click on the link provided in the acknowledgement email and during phase two, the message I get back is that my server is throwing an HTTP 500 error. And if I use the following link on my own: http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix =oai_dc I do indeed get an HTTP 500 error But when I include the timestamp as in: http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace-oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix =oai_dc&from=2006年05月15日 It returns the data seemingly without any problem. My oaicat.properties file contains the time stamp listed above (2006年05月15日) but the conformance test tool does not seem to recognize it. Is there something else I need to do to conform, pass the validation and set up my repository as a data provider? I have considered searching the OAI implementers archive but an exhaustive search it would require opening each month's messages one at a time (unless I'm missing something). Thanks in advance for any advice, Alvin Hutchinson Smithsonian Institution Libraries (202) 633-1031 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.openarchives.org/pipermail/oai-implementers/attachments/20080219/a69e257b/attachment.htm